Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nearly 1,500 hospitals and health systems are participating in the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to ...

April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

Hospitals and health systems are working hard to ensure that every person in every community rece...

This joint HPOE and Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital webinar discus...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

Crossroad Health Center is a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient-centered medic...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...